The Moderate Republicans and Radical Republicans created the Wade-Davis Bill to come up with a plan for reconstruction that both could support. The bill required that the majority of white males in a former confederate state to take an oath of alliance to the Union. This allowed the state to hold a constitutional convention to create a new state government.
The Moderate Republicans and Radical Republicans created the Wade-Davis Bill to come up with a plan for reconstruction that both could support. The bill required that the majority of white males in a former confederate state to take an oath of alliance to the Union. This allowed the state to hold a constitutional convention to create a new state government.